I am a demonic cultivator, not a capitalist with a conscience.

Chapter 220 In order not to drop out of school, I have no choice but to gain fans (16)

"Miao Qingyu, what are you doing?"

At Hehuan University, a sophomore student wearing colored contact lenses and chewing gum glanced at the printed materials her teacher had slapped in front of her and said, puzzled, "A photo album."

The short-haired female teacher took a deep breath and then asked seriously, "Tell me, what are the requirements for this assignment?"

"Just shoot any photobook and satisfy the readers' unknown quirks. So, I shot a 'Glasses Photobook'."

"The name is alright, but tell me, why is there only glasses inside?! Where are you?!"

"I was taking pictures from the side."

"Then why don't you appear in the frame?"

"I'm a rather traditional person, and I'm not really interested in doing things for free."

"How do tradition and free services combine?! And don't come to the Hehuan Sect if you're going to follow tradition! Students of the Hehuan Sect are expected to be generous, beautiful, and actively express themselves! Tell me, why did you choose the Hehuan Sect in the first place?"

"The scores here are low."

"Get out!"

After kicking Miao Qingyu out of the classroom, the female teacher slammed the door shut and said coldly through it, "If you still fail to get an average grade today, then you can expect to be expelled!"

Looking at the closed door, Miao Qingyu shrugged helplessly, sensing that this was going to be a bit troublesome.

Hehuan University is notoriously expensive. Students here have to learn makeup, gain fans, please various deities and their corresponding temple priests, and even save money for minor cosmetic procedures.

She works three jobs a day to earn tuition fees, but it's still not enough.

To help her pay for college tuition, her father had to use his ancestral transformation technique to work at the zoo, turning into a panda every day and eating bamboo until he developed anal fissures. When he came back, he would tell her that it didn't hurt at all.

Her brother transformed into a wolf and worked in a calligraphy brush factory. He removed his own hair and made wolf hair brushes to sell, using half of his earnings to buy hair growth products.

Her younger sister is only in high school, but she has already learned how to act mature and work at a cat cafe. She has now become addicted to catnip and cries every night about being bullied at work.

As the only high-achieving student in several generations of her family to be admitted to university, she really had no way out.

They were initially recruited because their ancestors had a special talent for transformation techniques, allowing them to transform into other animals, giving them an extra path compared to ordinary students at Hehuan University.

However, there are different categories of transformation techniques, and the category she excels at is rather peculiar.

It is an insect.

After learning that her specialty was insects, the admissions officer had a month's salary docked as punishment for her inadequate vetting.

Insects are no longer popular!

Mushrooms are what everyone likes now!

It's still obsessive-compulsive!

She stumbled and struggled to reach her second year of university. Because of financial difficulties, she fell behind in too many courses, and now she has been given a notice of expulsion by her teacher. She really has no way out.

Just as she was thinking about how to tell her family the news, she saw her phone light up.

Dad: [Qingyu, Dad's fine. The bleeding last time was just because I was a bit feverish, it has nothing to do with the bamboo. By the way, do you need money? Dad earned an extra hundred yuan today performing acrobatics, use it to buy something nice.]

Brother: [Next time we meet, don't say I'm your brother. People will think there's a bald gene in our family, which won't be good for your future. I recently discovered that body hair can be used to make pens, which has increased my production and earned me an extra eighty. Use that to buy some followers. Fake followers are still followers, and maybe they'll attract some real ones.]

Sister: [Sis, I'm really fine. I've quit catnip, so don't worry about me. By the way, I'm not smoking catnip anymore, and I have some money in my pocket. You don't need to worry about tuition; use this sixty yuan to buy some cosmetics.] Seeing her relative's message, she simply couldn't bring herself to say the thought of dropping out of school.

Miao Qingyu took out her phone, logged into the school's academic system, and began to check her grades.

She wasn't worried about her academic subjects, nor about her general knowledge of magic techniques. She was also excellent in physical education and art, so there were no problems with those subjects either.

However, besides that, he failed the makeup class, the emotional value class, and the acting class.

After reviewing the materials, Miao Qingyu discovered that some classes didn't have exams today, so there was no way to improve scores.

Some courses have already reached their peak, and there's nothing more to mention.

The only course worth mentioning is Social Relations, which requires students to acquire a specified number of followers on platforms recognized by the university, and these followers cannot be purchased.

She got the worst grade in this course because she needed to be in the public eye to gain fans, but she simply didn't have the time to do so.

After all, gaining fans in the early stages requires ranking, researching the market, and trying to manage one's own image; each step takes time to refine.

But this course has the highest weight, since all the disciplines at Hehuan University serve this course.

Leeks are evolved from fans. First, make others your fans, then evolve them into leeks, and then you can continue to grow by relying on leeks. This is the cultivation path of the Hehuan Sect.

The way of Heaven is to take from those who have more than enough and give to those who have less than enough. This means that Heaven also allows you to use other people's money to make up for your empty wallet, which is a very natural thing.

Gaining fans is naturally not easy, but in order to avoid being expelled, she had no choice but to start with this course.

"Now I need to get 80 points to stay, and the requirements for 80 points are... 80,000 followers on Thunder.net, 160,000 followers on Juying.net, 200,000 followers on Douyin.net, and Ah Zhan... Ah Zhan is no longer counted, right? I think Wang Ma's live stream is pretty good."

After looking around for a while, Miao Qingyu decided to start with ThunderNet, which she preferred.

After all, this website is full of people like me who don't want to go out and just want to stay home and play Dream World. So, I think there might be a market for me to gain fans by live streaming here.

I also really enjoy playing Dreamscape, and my phone has a speaker function so that others can see what I'm playing.

It can even allow others to see the dream from a third-person perspective, further separating oneself from the characters in the dream and reducing one's social anxiety.

However, she felt dizzy every time she entered the live streaming platform.

There are too many people streaming.

People from the Hehuan Sect are involved in this competition, as are people from other sects.

People were rolling up the sleeves, and so were the animals. The little animals were already exhausted and starting to shed fur, but for their owner's sake, they still forced smiles and showed themselves in front of the camera.

Many streamers have even evolved into triple or quadruple streamers, able to perform four different kinds of acts in the same frame.

"Temple keeper's robes, aloof, glasses, explaining calculus while playing a dream game—is that really how he is?"

"Role-playing, zombies, long tongues, earlobes that can move and write, I'd really like to see this."

"Foundation Building, spells, only viewable at midnight? This is clearly an illegal Foundation Building practice. Doesn't ThunderNet care about this now?"

After looking around for a while, Miao Qingyu realized with despair that she seemed unable to influence these people.

"These days, livestreamers are so shrewd."

　Here are three chapters to start, more this afternoon. I'll adjust the update schedule as soon as possible.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)